Thursday, 1 June 2017Parker Solar Probe It's been on NASA's bucket list for 60 years, and now the ambitious mission to touch the Sun is in its final phase before launch. So just how do you send a spacecraft into the Sun without it burning up?Subjects: astronomy-space, space-exploration, spacecraft, stars, news

Thursday, 25 February 2016Merging stars A rare burst of energy lasting less than a millisecond that happened around six billion light-years ago in a galaxy far, far away has been tracked to its source by scientists for the first time.Subjects: astronomy-space, telescopes, space-exploration, galaxies, news

Tuesday, 23 February 2016ET phone home The Goldilocks Zone refers to the habitable zone around a star where the temperature is just right - not too hot and not too cold - for liquid water to exist on an planet.Subjects: astronomy-space, space-exploration, stars, askanexpert

Wednesday, 27 January 2016Star factories Massive groups of stars called globular star clusters may produce new generations of stars by drawing in fresh supplies of gas from their surrounding galaxy, according to a new study.Subjects: the-universe, space-exploration, physics, stars, galaxies, news

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